Ag Rojas tells MTV News the eye-catching new clip 'is pretty ridiculous,' no matter what critics have to say.
By James Montgomery
Jack White
Photo: WireImage
Jack White's brand-new "Sixteen Saltines" video combines all the warm-and-fuzzy sentiments of a Larry Clark production with the nihilistic, general grotesquery of, well, any Harmony Korine picture — only with more auto-erotic asphyxiation, creative drug use, property destruction and flat-out visceral violence tossed in for good measure. Needless to say, it's pretty amazing.
It's the brainchild of director Ag Rojas, who's made a name for himself in recent years with the similarly gripping, warts-and-all videos he's directed for the likes of Spiritualized ("Hey Jane") and Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt ("Earl," aka the clip that probably got Earl sent off to boot camp). And though those vids strike at the same exposed nerve, none of them have garnered the same kinds of reactions "Saltines...
By James Montgomery
Jack White
Photo: WireImage
Jack White's brand-new "Sixteen Saltines" video combines all the warm-and-fuzzy sentiments of a Larry Clark production with the nihilistic, general grotesquery of, well, any Harmony Korine picture — only with more auto-erotic asphyxiation, creative drug use, property destruction and flat-out visceral violence tossed in for good measure. Needless to say, it's pretty amazing.
It's the brainchild of director Ag Rojas, who's made a name for himself in recent years with the similarly gripping, warts-and-all videos he's directed for the likes of Spiritualized ("Hey Jane") and Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt ("Earl," aka the clip that probably got Earl sent off to boot camp). And though those vids strike at the same exposed nerve, none of them have garnered the same kinds of reactions "Saltines...
- 4/6/2012
- MTV Music News
Considering it's where most of us (bar the weird home-schooled kids) spend our crucial formative years, where we have our first fights, our first loves, our first tentative steps into adulthood, it's no surprise that high school has long been a popular setting for movies. A range of genres (though generally leaning towards comedy) have taken place in those hallways, particularly from the 1980s onwards, when John Hughes, among others, made an entire career out of the lives and loves of 15-18 year olds.
The latest film to head back to class is "21 Jump Street" (review here) the big-screen reboot of the '80s TV show, which stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as youthful-looking cops who are sent back to high school in order to bust a drug-running ring. While you might assume this to be another lazy remake, you'd be very wrong, as Tatum, Hill, co-writer Michael Bacall,...
The latest film to head back to class is "21 Jump Street" (review here) the big-screen reboot of the '80s TV show, which stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as youthful-looking cops who are sent back to high school in order to bust a drug-running ring. While you might assume this to be another lazy remake, you'd be very wrong, as Tatum, Hill, co-writer Michael Bacall,...
- 3/15/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Joyce Pensato: Batman Returns Friedrich Petzel Gallery Through February 25, 2012
In the 1970s, The Joker, Batman's greatest nemesis, had his own nine-issue comic book series, in which he faced off against a variety of both superheroes and supervillains. Because of the restrictive "comic books code," "good" ultimately had to triumph over "evil" in every storyline. This led to some creative writing strategies -- that is, how to make one of the most morally unhinged villains in superhero lore appear to do something "good" every third issue.
In the fourth and fifth issue, this problem was solved by The Joker's kidnapping of a Charles Schultz-like character and keeping him a prisoner in the HaHaHacienda. Although The Joker demanded a huge ransom for the return of Gotham's beloved cartoonist, he also derived great, sadistic pleasure from forcing the artist to write cartoons in which the Charlie Brown character was drowned, beaten up,...
In the 1970s, The Joker, Batman's greatest nemesis, had his own nine-issue comic book series, in which he faced off against a variety of both superheroes and supervillains. Because of the restrictive "comic books code," "good" ultimately had to triumph over "evil" in every storyline. This led to some creative writing strategies -- that is, how to make one of the most morally unhinged villains in superhero lore appear to do something "good" every third issue.
In the fourth and fifth issue, this problem was solved by The Joker's kidnapping of a Charles Schultz-like character and keeping him a prisoner in the HaHaHacienda. Although The Joker demanded a huge ransom for the return of Gotham's beloved cartoonist, he also derived great, sadistic pleasure from forcing the artist to write cartoons in which the Charlie Brown character was drowned, beaten up,...
- 2/5/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
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